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Green spaces
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Urban Forestry
With promises to transform urban mobility and streamline maintenance operations for City staff, the allure of the Smart City is undeniable
The UN projects that, as urbanization intensifies, the human population could add another 2.5 billion people to cities by the year 2050
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This intensification places enormous pressure on the systems of cities, as roads become choked with traffic, water and wastewater systems struggle to meet the demands of a growing population, and electrical grids stretch to capacity.
Smart cities promise a panacea for all of the problems plaguing the modern city, claiming to have positive impacts on all sorts of indicators including environment, human health, physical performance, economic benefits, and social connections.
Adaptive Reuse Spaces
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One must seek opportunities to carefully insert or adapt landscape systems to the constraints of established urban communities
New York’s High Line, Atlanta’s Beltline, and Madrid’s RIO project all relied on abandoned or superseded rail or highway infrastructure to thread linear landscapes through the hearts of old cities
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